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Wednesday, May 14, 2003
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Monkey RSS
Webmonkey put up a piece on RSS today. Nice intro on the subject with many helpful links. Interesting quote: "Unfortunately, a couple of things about RSS aren't "Really Simple" — namely, the history and politics. " Lucky for us, parsing XML can help us get around history and politics :)
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No worries about RSS versions
I've been "aggregating" RSS content recently for some projects and found it convient to simply use an XPath-aware package or module to parse RSS feeds. By using the simple XPath expression, you can just hunt for the RSS <item> element instances, and easily find any child of that like <description>. I believe the item element and it's critical child elements are similar in all RSS versions. Seems to work, and I can re-use the same XPath code to parse all sorts of XML documents, not just RSS.
This is an example in Perl:
$rss_feed = <your RSS feed> # from url or file
$xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $rss_feed);
foreach my $news_item ($xp->findnodes('// item') {
print $news_item->findvalue('description')."\n";
}
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Phone-PDA?
Has anyone tried the Samsung SPH-i500 phone. I saw it in the new Wired magazine this evening. After looking on the web, it seems this Palm OS - phone combo has been out in the market since January. My 3 year old Palm is probably going to kick it soon and I plan to stick with a Palm OS device. Next to my bicycle or my car, a PDA is probably the most useful thing I ever owned.
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2004
Al Nevarez.
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